TROY, N.Y.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Aug. 17, 2005—
Scott Virkler, vice president of business development
for GlobalSpec, Inc., along with three executives from the Boeing
Company will offer ways to virtually manage geographically dispersed
and culturally diverse design teams during the SAE 2005 AeroTech
Congress and Exhibition in Dallas, October 4, 2005.

During "Project Management in a Virtual Environment," Mr. Virkler
will explore the evolution of project and team management techniques
which allow multi-cultural creativity to flourish while still
conforming to large-scale product development schedules. His "New
Passageways to Product and Engineering Data Discovery on the Web,"
will be supplemented by a talk from Peter Schoot of Boeing Commercial
Airplanes on the aircraft makers' experiences during the evolution of
virtual product development. To conclude, Anna Thornton and Stephen
Walls of Boeing's Analytics Operations Engineering team will examine
challenges in problem solving in the midst of the current
multi-cultural design evolution.

GlobalSpec is the leading specialized search engine for the
engineering community. Engineers and technical buyers regularly use
GlobalSpec's trademarked search technology, SpecSearch(R), to search
by specification more than 84 million parts in 1,200,000 product
families from more than 14,500 supplier catalogs. GlobalSpec also
provides access to The Engineering Web(sm) -- more than 200 million
pages of highly-organized, filtered technical content including
products, services, standards, patents, materials properties, designs,
application notes and proprietary content unavailable on other search
engines. Suppliers representing their products and services on
GlobalSpec gain a comprehensive marketing program designed to promote
their brand and generate, track and manage highly-qualified sales
leads. Information about GlobalSpec can be found at
http://www.globalspec.com.

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GlobalSpec, Inc.